Posts by Mary Olsen Newton
CaringWorks Receives Healthcare Georgia Foundation Direct Services Grant
CaringWorks is very proud to be a recipient of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation Direct Services Grant. This grant will support the implementation and evaluation of the Community Health Worker (CHW)…
Read MoreBack to School Bash with Free School Supplies and Groceries
Join Families First, Starbucks, Target and Kroger on July 24 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm for the Back-to-School Bash! Experience fun ways for the entire family to learn through…
Read MoreElevating lives with ASPIRE
For homeless men, women, and children, a common cold quickly becomes pneumonia…undetected high blood pressure becomes a stroke…or untreated diabetes becomes kidney failure. Ultimately, unequal access to healthcare becomes a…
Read MoreCaringWorks Clients Succeed
61% of our clients graduated from CaringWorks to pursue additional treatment or permanent housing during 2020. The remaining clients continue to work toward their goals of stable housing, better health…
Read MoreHow Do You Perceive Homelessness?
How the public perceives homelessness has a large impact on a city’s policies. Society tends to blame the individual for being homeless due to a variety of factors. Actually, research…
Read MoreCaringWorks’ Mission Continued During Pandemic
CaringWorks served 631 households in 2020, an increase over past years. This just shows that our Mission continued during the pandemic. CaringWorks Mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the…
Read MoreAtlanta Chronicle Celebrates CaringWorks
Carol Collard’s career went from working in home-building to home-acquiring. After earning her master’s degree in social work in 2001, she founded CaringWorks Inc., in 2002, a nonprofit to assist people experiencing chronic homelessness. The organization’s thousands of clients include people with mental illness and substance use disorders, families and veterans.
Read MoreCaringWorks Announces New Chief Financial Officer
Chris Hester, Nonprofit Finance Executive, Joins CaringWorks Team CaringWorks, a nonprofit agency working to end homelessness by providing access to safe, affordable housing and support services, today announced the appointment…
Read MoreMany fear looming housing, homelessness ‘crisis’ amid hold on evictions
Monica Griffin, 51, knows what it feels like to be evicted. She was forced to move in with a friend last year after not being able to afford rent and utilities at her last place in Gwinnett. With the help of CaringWorks, a local nonprofit, she was able to eventually find stable and affordable housing, moving into a Stonecrest-area apartment with her teenage daughter in December.
Read MoreCaringWorks Earns National Grant to Expand Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support Services During COVID-19 Crisis
CaringWorks, a non-profit agency working to end homelessness by providing access to safe, affordable housing and support services, today announced it received a micro-grant from Communication Service for the Deaf…
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